Prepared for the press, after the death of the author, by Jenny C. Watts and William R. Cutter, under the direction of a committee of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Includes bibliographical references and index

v. 1. Memoir of Mellen Chamberlain / by Henry W. Haynes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The planters at Winnisimmet, Samuel Maverick -- 3. Samuel Maverick's Palisade House, Maverick's place of residence, Early homes at Chelsea, Samuel Maverick and Dixy Bull, Will of Elias Maverick, Maverick's descendants, The Brintnall family, Jonathan Green, Dyke and Dam at Island-end River, Location of the Maverick Ferry Landing -- 4. The Indians at Winnisimmet, their places of abode -- 5. Indian deeds -- 6. Allotments of land, The great allotments, Houses on the Pratt Estate, Way and Ireland, The Pratt family, The Cheever family, The Newgate Farm, Simeon Stoddard's fence, Cogan and Doolittle, Cogan and Floyd, James Bill, The Tuttle farms, The Cole, Hasey, and Lewis farms, The Sale farm, Deane Winthrop, Samuel Bennett's farm, Malden owners of Land in Chelsea -- 7. Governor Bellingham's estates at Winnisimmet, Lieutenant John Smith, Comparative value of the Bellingham farms, Inventory of Edward Watts and Will of Rebecca Watts, Letters of John Tudor, The Watts family, Henry Howell Williams, The Eustace family, The Cary family, Stephen Kent, The Senter family, Farm of Daniel Watts, List of plans -- 8. Governor Bellinghams's will -- 9. Contest for the Bellingham Estates begins, Inventory of Richard Bellingham, Suit of John Blake, Suits of Oxenbridge and Smith -- 10. Governor Bellingham's will before the General Court, Suits of Nicholas Rice -- 11. Richard Wharton sues for his services, Hammond vs. Bellingham, Wharton vs. Stoddard and Ranger, Wharton vs. Eustace, Bellingham vs. Eustace, Thomson vs. Eustace -- 12. Governor Billingham's Estate by descent, the marriage settlement -- 13. The Bellingham will case reopened, appeal of Rev. James Allen -- 14. Suits for the Bellingham Estates resumed, Pembroke and Hiller suits, Watts and Townsend suits -- 15. The Clergy of Boston make an address to the General Court -- 16. A long truce, Letters of Joseph Hiller and Elizabeth Bellingham -- 17. The Bellingham Will in Town meeting, Col. Thomas Goldthwait, Allen vs. Eustace, Danforth vs. Sergent et al -- 18. The end near, Thompson sues for the Eustis Farm , writ of execution -- 19. Captain Robert Keayne's Estate in Rumney Marsh, The Chamberlain family of Rumney Marsh, Colonel Nicholas Paige, The tenants on the farm

v. 2. 20. The contest renewed, original accounts, The survey of the Paige Farm -- 21. Elisha Cooke's last appeal, Nicholas and Anna Paige and Captain Keayne's Estate, the Paige Farms -- 22. Winnisimmet Ferry -- 23. Winnisimmet Ferry in court -- 24. Winnisimmet Ferry, acts and orders, the landing place of Winnisimmet Ferry in Boston -- 25. Highways and town ways and bridges, original documents -- 26. Ecclesiastical, miscellaneous memoranda, Rev. Thomas Cheever -- 27. Formation of a church, as given by Rev. Thomas Cheever -- 28. Rev. William McClenachan's pastorate, petition of Rev. William McClenachan -- 29. Phillips Payson's pastorate, votes from the town and selectmen's records and Payson Genealogy -- 30. Education -- 31. Miscellaneous matters, 1631-1739 -- 32. Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh and Pullen Point become a town with the name of Chelsea -- 33. Chelsea as a town -- 34. Chelsea as a town (continued), Counterfeit money -- 35. A new parish, Jurymen and taxation -- 36. Point Shirley -- 37. The small-pox -- 38. In the French Wars -- 39. Beaches and marshes -- 40. The American Revolution coming -- 41. The American Revolution begun -- 42. Removal of live stock from the islands, extracts from contemporaneous records -- 43. Chelsea in the Revolutionary War-Bunker Hill, Chelsea companies in the fight -- 44. Chelsea in the Revolutionary War-military forces at Chelsea during the seige of Boston, original documents -- 45. Chelsea in the Revolutionary War-losses from military occupation, damages sustained by Jonathan Green -- 46. Chelsea in the Revolutionary War-quotas, enlistments, bounties and pay -- 47. Chelsea in the Revolutionary War-arms, ammunition, clothing and supplies -- 48. Chelsea in the Revolutionary War-alarms and signals -- 49. Chelsea in the Revolutionary War-the small-pox -- 50. Taxation and political affairs -- 51. Chelsea Bridge and Salem Turnpike -- 52. Rev. Dr. Tuckerman's pastorate, extracts from the town records, persons admitted to full communion, from the church records at Rumney Marsh, baptisms from the church records at Rumney Marsh, baptisms during Rev. Dr. Tuckerman's pastorate, a registry of deaths from October 26, 1757, deaths during Dr. Tuckerman's pastorate, a registry of marriages from October 26, 1757, intentions of marriage, deed of the school house, educational statistics, military statistics and other matters, taxation and miscellaneous items, officers at Rumney Marsh and Chelsea, inscriptions in Rumney Marsh burying ground

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